#phones

Microphones are just like people, if you shout at them, they get scared. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#just #like #microphones #people #scared

I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything. ↗

— Will Oldham

#down #faraway #go #i #movie

Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon. ↗

— Barbara Olson

#constantly #house #kind #pardon #phones

People are very protective of their cell phones, how it's used, where it's used and how much it costs. It has become a very personal issue for a whole lot of people in this country. ↗

— Steve Largent

#cell #cell phones #costs #country #how

Mobile phones ... they're not for communicating, they're for broadcasting. Broadcasting The Show Of Me. ↗

— Adam Nevill

#communication

What’s not so great is that all this technology is destroying our social skills. Not only have we given up on writing letters to each other, we barely even talk to each other. People have become so accustomed to texting that they’re actually startled when the phone rings. It’s like we suddenly all have Batphones. If it rings, there must be danger. Now we answer, “What happened? Is someone tied up in the old sawmill?” “No, it’s Becky. I just called to say hi.” “Well you scared me half to death. You can’t just pick up the phone and try to talk to me like that. Don’t the tips of your fingers work? ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#humor #phones #texting #communication

Imagine how weird phones would look if your mouth was nowhere near your ears. ↗

— Steven Wright

#humor

So you keep raising these taxes, and all of a sudden the business community says, 'Why are we here? We can go someplace else and use their phones.' That's one of the problems that directly affects the business community. ↗

— Richard M. Daley

#business #business community #community #directly #else

I hate phones. All businesses are personal businesses, and I always try my best to get back to people, but sometimes the barrage of calls is so enormous that if I just answered calls I would do nothing else. ↗

— Vera Wang

#answered #back #best #businesses #calls

Unlike then, the mail stream of today has diminished by such things as e-mails and faxes and cell phones and text messages, largely electronic means of communication that replace mail. ↗

— John M. McHugh

#cell phones #communication #diminished #e-mails #electronic